Missing boy found sleeping under van

August 6, 2008 10:47:09 AM PDT

BUENA PARK --

A 3-year-old boy is safe Wednesday morning after he was found sleeping under a van outside his family's hotel room in Orange County.Buena Park police say the child and his family were in town from Salt Lake City for a family reunion.

The boy's mother said she locked the dead bolt on their hotel room, but the child still got out and wandered off.

Police believe he left the hotel through a security gate and began looking for his family's car.

They found him about an hour and a half after he was reported missing.